Now, reading the formal shareholder breakdown on the document, my jaw dropped.

Claire Thornton: Fifty-one percent.

Gavin Thornton: Forty-nine percent.

I stared at the numbers in utter disbelief.

“This cannot possibly be right.”

“It was legally registered and filed that way from the very beginning,” Samantha informed me.

“Why would it be set up like that?” I asked, my mind spinning.

“Because your personal inheritance supplied the vast majority of the startup capital,” Samantha explained.